D IG IT AL I NDIA

A P R O G R A M M E TO T R A N S F O R M I NDIA INTO
A DIG I TALLY E M P O W E R E D S O C I E T Y AND
KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

By: MOHD KHIZAR

W HAT IS D IG ITA L I NDIA ?
 The Digital India program is a flagship program of the Government of India
with a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and
knowledge economy.
 Digital India initiative has been launched on July 3, 2015 (1.13 lakh crore cost)
with a vision to digitally empower each and every citizen of the country.
 It aims at ensuring the government services are made available to citizens
electronically by reducing paperwork.
 It also includes plan to connect rural areas with high-speed internet networks.
 It is coordinated by Deity(Department Electronics and IT) and is implemented by
the government.
 Prime Minister is the Chairman on monitoring committee.
V ISION AREA OF D IGITAL I NDIA
 The vision of Digital India programme is to transform India into a
digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.
 The Digital India programme is centered on three key vision
areas:
 V I S I O N I D IG ITAL I N F R A S T R U C T U R E AS A
U TILITY TO E V E R Y C ITIZEN

A well connected nation is a prerequisite to a well served nation.

Once the remotest of the Indian villagers are digitally connected
through broadband and high speed internet, then delivery of
electronic government services to every citizen, targeted social
benefits, and financial inclusion can be achieved in reality.

◾ Availability of high speed internet as a core utility for delivery of

services to citizens
◾ Digital identity that is unique, lifelong, online and authenticable to
every citizen
◾ Mobile phone & bank account enabling citizen participation in
digital & financial space
◾ Easy access to a Common Service Centre
◾ Shareable private space on a public cloud
◾ Safe and secure cyber-space
V I S I O N II G O VERNANCE & SERVICES
ON DEMAND

Six elements are crucial for ensuring that governance and services
are made available on demand to all citizens:

 Seamlessly integrated services across departments or jurisdictions

 Availability of services in real time from online & mobile platforms
 All citizen entitlements to be portable and available on the cloud
 Digitally transformed services for improving ease of doing business
 Making financial transactions electronic & cashless
 Leveraging Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) for decision
support systems & development
V I S I O N III D IG ITAL E M PO W ERM ENT
O F C ITIZENS

Digital connectivity is a great leveler. Cutting across demographic

and socio-economic segments, Indians are increasingly connecting
and communicating with each other through mobile phones and
computers riding on digital networks.

The key components under this vision includes:

 Universal digital literacy
 Universally accessible digital resources
 Availability of digital resources / services in Indian
languages
 Collaborative digital platforms for participative governance
 Citizens not required to physically submit Govt. documents
/certificates
N INE P ILLARS OF D IG ITAL I NDIA

4. E‐Governance – 7. Electronics
1. Broadband Reforming government Manufacturing – Target
Highways through Technology NET ZERO Imports

2. Universal Access to 5. eKranti – Electronic

8. IT for Jobs
Phones delivery of services

3. Public Internet 6. Information for All 9. Early Harvest

Access Programme Programmes
E- KRANTI : E LE C TR O NIC D E LIVE R Y O F S E RVIC ES
T HERE ARE 44 M ISSION M O DE P R O J E C T S UN DE R E -K RANTI ,
WHICH ARE AT VARIOUS STAGES O F IMPLEMENTATION WITH THE
VISION O F “T RANSFORMING E -G O VE RNANCE FOR T RANSFORMING
G OVERNANCE
 I NITIATIVES BY G OVT . TO B U I L D ICT I NFR A STRU CTU RE

Initiative Description Current Status

BharatNet Aim to provide broadband access to • 144430 km of optic fiber laid
250000 Gram Panchayats through • Initial Terget: Broadband to
a network of Optical Fibre Cable 150000 G Ps by Dec 2015.
• Revised Target: Broadband to
100000 G Ps by March 2017
Smart Cities Creation of 109 smart cities (target • 90 cities have been chosen to be
revised from 100) by 2022. INR 5 covered under the Smart Cities
billion allocated to every city over 5 mission.
years for this purpose • Allocation of INR 32 billion in
union budget 2016-17
Common Service C S C s are centers through which e- • Over 1,70,000 C S C s are
governance and related services operational across India.
Centre(CSC) will be made available to villages • 2,50,000 G Ps to have one C S C
each (at least).
• Village Level Entrepreneur
(VLE) model being followed to
empower locals; nearly 240,000
VL E s have been appointed
Digitization of Post Offices Digitization of post offices including • All 25,297 departmental post
setting up centralized data centers, offices have been computerized.
networking of all post offices and • 238 million postal bank accounts
enabling digital payments have been digitized.
• 155,000 post offices (130,000 in
rural areas) to be digitized by
March 2017
Universal Access to Mobile Aims to provide mobile access to • 55,669 villages to be covered by
more than 55,600 villages that do March 2019.
 S T A T US O F M A J O R S E R V I C E S L A U N C H E D U N D E R THE
D IGITAL I NDIA P R O G R A M M E
Services Description
eSign eSign framework allows for online • Implemented and deployed
digital signature by leveraging Aadhaar • Used for business documents & tax
authentication returns

National Centre of G I S platform for sharing and collaborating Platform has been developed and is
G I S data source, location-based analytics and seeking support from
Geo- Informatics Decision Support System state government for deployment

Information Security Capacity building in the area of Information • 51 academic institutions

Security to address the human resource • 4- Info. Security Research and
Education and requirement, training and develop information Development Centers
Awareness (ISEA) security awareness (ISRDC)
Phase- II & Cyber • 7-Resource Centers (RCs)
• 30,000 people trained
Security
MyGov app Citizen-centric platform empowering people to Service has been rolled out with more
connect with the government & contribute than 10,00,000 users
toward good governance

DigiLocker Digital Locker facility provides citizens a • With 39,60083 registered users
shareable private space on a public cloud and DigiLocker this service is
making all documents / certificates available available for citizens18
on cloud • App available in Playstore

Swachh Bharat To further the Swachh Bharat mission, the 500,000 installs so far
government has launched this app which will
Abhiyaan app be used by people and government
Organizations

National Scholarships One-stop-solution for end-to-end scholarship • Developed and deployed successfully
process right from submission of student • 1,22,96,926 registered students
Wi-Fi hotspots Under this initiative, the • 2489 hotspots
government plans to deploy Wi-Fi • 1209 hotspot locations
at public and tourist places

Payment Bank by India By March 2017, India Post will Development in progress
launch their own Payment Bank
Post across India

PayOnline Launch of e- National ePayment gateway is e-Payment started in Railways,

enabling every Indian citizen to CPWD, Ministry of Urban
Payment Portal make online payments for all Development for 152 Divisions, a
Government based transactions, total of 278 Divisions to be on-
ecommerce payments and other boarded by the end of this year
related tasks

Launch of Online labs for Under this nationwide initiative, • Online labs currently has over
Online labs will be available in 90,000 registered users.
schools Hindi, Malayalam and Marathi and • Being moved to the National
offered in both urban and rural. Knowledge Network (NKN) to
schools 30,000 teachers in all support large scale
Indian states will be provided
training on Online labs

e-Education Providing high-tech education in • In progress – Pilots / POCs

remote and urban areas using deployed
technology like smartphones, apps • Smart Class Rooms and target of
and Internet services providing all school with broadband
and Wi-Fi available.
• 30000+ teachers enrolled

e- Hospital e-Hospital programme enables As on November 2016, 56 hospitals

patients to register book provide this service with a total of
 O TH E R I NITIATIVES

Infrastructure Services Empowerment

STATE WIDE A R EA NETWORK PASSPORT S EV A P R O J E C T (PSP) TA R G ET ED P U B L I C

DISTRIBUTION S Y S T EM (TPDS)
S I N G L E WINDOW I N T ER F A CE S WA T C H BHAARAT app SMART CITIES
F O R T R A DE (SWIFT)

RAPID A S S ES S M EN T S Y S T EM P U S A KRISHI P R A DH A N MANTRI K A U S H A L

V I K A S Y O J A N A (PMKVY)
O P EN DATA P R O J E C T M A N A G EM EN T P R A DH A N MANTRI JAN-DH A N
S Y S T EM (PMIS) Y O J A N A (PMJDY)
N A T I O N A L S U P ER C O M P U T I N G P A R I V AHAN PORTAL O P EN F O R G E
M I S S I O N (NSM)

J E E V A N PRAMAAN N I R B H A Y A APP MyGov

MEGHRAJ mKISAN DigiDhan ABHIYAAN

I R C T C C O N N EC T M A DA D APP B P O Scheme

I N T EG R A T E D H EA L T H K H O Y A PAYA AADHAAR EN A B L ED PAYMENT

I N F O R M A TI O N S Y S T EM (IHIP) S Y S T EM

G O V E R N M E N T eMARKETPLACE HIMMAT APP N R EG A - SOFT

eTRADE G O O D S A N D S ER V I C E TAX P A Y G O V INDIA

N ET WO R K (GSTN)
T HANK Y OU